New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-30

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Westminster Abbey, is worthy Of that rising young
SCULPTOR and worthy Of Mr.. Fawcett. Mr.. Leslie
Stephen's inscription beneath the portrait is less
successful The whole ceremony, though the pub
lie was excluded, was an aiTectonnte tribute to
| Mr. Fawcett's memory. Earl Granville made the
chief speech, and the company Included inc
Duke and Duchess Of Westminster Earl Spencer.
| many of Mr. FawCett's Cambridge comrades, three
Postmasters-General and numerous other repre-.
senatiyes from the Post Office and from irsttu-
tions for the blind. India sent considerable por-
tion OF tho money subscribed, amounting alto
gethcr to over twenty thousand dollars.
"The Times devotes three columns to review
of Mr. Brownng's new poem, "Parleylngs with
Certain People" The volume. it says requires
study, but will repay all the trouble bestowed
for it contains many deep and noble thoughts ana
many passages instinct with high poetic inspila-
ton 1t styles Mr.. Browning the "Tnarled'
knotted oak in the forest of English literature ;
but the studious reader soon forgets the burrs
upon the trunk and admres the strength, massive
ness and umbrageOusness Of the tree. Ii the
| present volume concludes the tewer, ac-
centuates one truth more than another It is that
the longer the poet lives the stronger becomes
his faith in Humanity, Nature and God Inc
Daily News article, doubtless Mr. Andrew Lang's.
rfdicules Mr. BIowning's singularites of style and
eccentricities Of method. Nevertheless 1t calls
this book the most welcome OF all his shorter
works since "Dramats Persona" IL
is delightful, ends Mr.. Lang, to find with the
old things to protest against the old manliness.
wisdom, keen sight and subtle reason 10 praise
in so eminent veteran poet
Mr. Gladstones article in the February "Nine-
teeuth Century bears tie title NOTES and
Queries on the Irish Demand Mr.. John Morley
completes his reply to Professor Dicey's Eng
lands Case Against Home Rule and Professor
Huxley writes on Scientific and Pseudo-Scientiic
Realism"
Sir Charles bikes second article In 1.-THE
Fortnightly Review on the present position OF
European politics deals with France, subject on
which his knowledge is greater than on Germany
The conclusion of Mr.. Matthew Arnold's article
on General Grant in "Murays Magazine is much
more interesting than the beginning.
Mr.. T.. j. Phelpss address on "1he Law or the
Land delivered last November before the Edin-
burgh Philosophical Institute, has just been pub
lshed in London as a pamphlet. This admirable
discourse was of the causes which established
the American Minister'S reputation in England as
"a jurist.
Lord Colin Campbells library will be sold by
auction next week at Edinburgh. The books are
mainly Scotch, and the proceeds will not 60 far
toward PAYING the costs OF his recent suit. The
bill handed in amounts TO S3.500, and this unless
paid, will land Lord Colin in the Bankruptcy Court.
Rumors Of that other great divorce suit which
was 30 eclipse the Campbell case are weekly re-
produced with unfaiiing pertinacy. The latest
refers to some unnamed case in the North with
three correspondents. co OF whom one is a great
personagc" meaning tho Prince OF Wales. The
story Is Totally devoid of the slightest iounda
tion.
Mr.. Pinero's "Sandy Dick produced Mt the
Court theatre. is built on lines now familiar TO
the Entlsh audience. The play starts with an
impossible absurdty. Before the audience can
begin to be amused they must accept incidents and
situations devoid of the slightest probability. The
piece is in fact thIceact farce, smartly written
with the sole view of extracting laughter 10
wins all the success POSSIBLE to that kind OF
uiece TO which Mrs. John Wood contributes ao
least as much as Mr.. Pinero. The popularity OF
this and similar performances evokes none TOO
soon an elaborate editorial protest from no less
an authority than the chief daily orTan OF English
Conservatism "1hey rubbish, says "lhe
Standard" and must be pronounced beneath con
tempt If there is TO be any standard, canon or
criterion of dramatic taste or dramatic art
G.. &.